SMART quality & compliance
Your computerized Medical Device is 5 years old, outdated and possibly evil
“With the rise of the Internet of things, one part of IT becomes more important where no one thinks about it. – Firmware” Florian Schnettelker Do you remember the hacked Hospira infusion pump in 2015, which was a big story in the news and forced a FDA product recall? A laptop with applicable software was connected to the maintenance port, which was an Ethernet Network port, of this pump and the hacker got soon access to the medical library of this pump and also the Wi-Fi credentials of internal hospital network. But how and why did this happen?…
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SMART quality & compliance
The Medical Internet of Things Is Here and It Must Be Secured
Security is like the brakes in your car. It slows you down, but it also makes it possible for you to go a lot faster. (Gary Hinson) On the Chaos Communication Congress in December 2015 in Hamburg, Germany, there was a talk about medical devices with new functions like a Bluetooth connection by a pacemaker to connect them to smartphones or a gateway for telemedicine. But with each connection to the outside world, a device becomes vulnerable which must be secured in a way that this connection cannot be used to harm patients. Last year the FDA pronounced a recall…
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